Staff Backend Engineer - Platform

About SigNoz
SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that helps modern engineering teams monitor, debug, and optimize their applications with deep visibility into metrics, traces, and logs — all in one place. We’re built natively on OpenTelemetry and offer both self-hosted and cloud options, so teams can run observability the way they want, without vendor lock-in.
We are growing fast and building core developer infra products.
And we are not fooling around:
26,000+ GitHub stars

700+ customers

7,000+ members in our Slack community

Role: Staff Backend Engineer – Platform
We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer – Platform. The platform team at SigNoz handles infra, billing tech, automations, auth, RBAC, caching, scalability of saas, staging envs, etc. The team is responsible for handling petabyte-scale data with performance.

What you’ll work on
You will be working with the high-caliber team in some of the below areas.
BillingOps, RevenueOps, Caching, Agent collectors, SaaS operations

Create a marketplace of integrations: patterns, templates, examples, and tooling to help the community plug SigNoz into their stack

Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go

SaaS auto-scalability

Making the ingest path robust to bursts while maintaining data freshness

What will make you successful
7–10 years of experience in golang

Strong understanding of concurrency, locks, channels, and performance in Go

Experience building distributed systems while writing clean and scalable code

Loves open source – ideally with prior contributions to OSS projects (any size)

Ability to drive initiatives end-to-end: from problem discovery → design → implementation → rollout

Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-moving, remote-first environment

Strong communication skills – can write clear tech docs and explain trade-offs

Nice-to-haves
Past experience in platform teams of series B+ startups.

Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)

Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and/or ClickHouse, Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.

Has been, or wants to be, a founder in B2B/devtools

Why you’ll love working at SigNoz
Work on a globally used open-source project that engineers actually love

Huge scope and ownership – your work directly shapes how teams adopt SigNoz

Collaborate with high-caliber team who just can't stop shipping

Remote-first, async-friendly culture

Opportunity to help define the future of open-source observability

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